Quotes About Comparison

Where the telescope ends, the microscope begins. Which of the two possesses the larger field of vision? Choose. A bit of mould is a pleiad of flowers; a nebula is an ant-hill of stars.

She was so unlike the other women he'd slept with. Course, they were whores, mostly...

I know a thing or two about jealousy, how it can cut you to the bone and bring out the worst in you.

Men are stupid. You might as well learn that now. Look at bull moose. They ram into each other at full speed. Same with Dall sheep. This will be a lot of sound and fury, signifying nothing.

Aw. Men are stupid. You might as well learn that now. Look at bull moose. They ram into each other at full speed. Same with Dall sheep.

She's my heroine. You know that.' Leni knew it wasn't a good thing, not a normal mom-and-dad thing, to compare your love to a drug that could hollow your body and fry your brain and leave you for dead. But they said it to each other all the time.

Snow is a poor substitute for soil

Rachel, as tall as the boys, with eyebrows that grew faster than a lie and a voice like a foghorn.

So you can't compare the present with the past, not really, because you're a different person than you were [when Patrick was alive]. You have to look forward to the things you want, not back at the things you once had.

How many times have you carried the burden of thinking you have to live up to some ideal "fairy-tale" image of a good mother?

Sie hatte eine helle Haut und große, lachende, funkelnde, dunkle kaukasische Augen unter langen, zarten Wimpern. Nur die Georgierin hat solche Augen voll milder Fröhlichkeit. Niemand sonst. Keine Europäerin. Keine Asiatin.

Armenians have more imagination than Mohammedans.

averages: a few times I've been in rooms with a hundred ordinary people and my acquaintance Warren Buffett, which meant the average person's net worth in those rooms

A note on averages: a few times I've been in rooms with a hundred ordinary people and my acquaintance Warren Buffett, which meant the average person's net worth in those rooms was nearly $1 billion.

Prefiero ser el peor de los mejores, que el mejor de los peores

If you can do a half-assed job of anything, you're a one-eyed man in a kingdom of the blind.

The only difference between Hitler and Bush is that Hitler was elected.

Identical twins are no different from everyone else, except we look and sometimes sound exactly alike.

the assertion of an identity always proceeds through contrast or opposition;

I bet having sex with her was like throwing a hot dog down a hallway.

Julian: She's very strong, you know. Much too good for you. Tom: I know. But she's a thousand times too good for you.

In grace and beauty and sheer fascination, they were alike. But where Katherine had been a white kitten, Elena was a snow-white tigress.

Suddenly I caught sight of myself in a glass and saw what a figure of fun I looked. Hitherto I had always taken my appearance for granted; now I saw how inelegant it was, compared with theirs; and at the same time, for the first time, I was acutely aware of social inferiority. I felt utterly out of place among these smart rich people, and a misfit everywhere.

She shook her head impatiently; the idea of being in competition with other unhappy people was distasteful to her. It was an argument that her friends sometimes used, very delicately of course—that other people had more reason for grief than she had. As if grief could be measured by its causes, and not by the victim's capacity for suffering!